Lenient is valid Scrabble Word

Is lenient a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for LENIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:

(archaic) something which softens, an emollient
A lenitive; an emollient.
lenient person

ADJECTIVE:

not severe, tolerant
(of a punishment or person in authority) more merciful or tolerant than expected
mild or soothing; emollient.
tolerant, not strict or severe
Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
tolerant or lenient

characterized by tolerance and mercy

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

gently tolerant

Words related to LENIENT

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How to use LENIENT in a sentence

So long as priests and nuns have been submissive to the authority of the Church, the Church has been lenient to their opinions.
But these seaman of his must have been most exemplary saints to have proved docile under so lenient a sway.
But to-day he was in a more lenient, perhaps in a more human, and therefore more spiritual mood.
The majority held that the assembly had been lenient with Mr.
This lenient treatment completely subdued the last vestige of evil habits acquired in childhood.
In a situation so delicate and important the lenient and persuasive measures which you adopted merit and receive our affectionate approbation.
We are equally lenient nowadays to many a comic-opera comedian, so called.
He was perhaps even more cruel than the bulk of the Arsacidae, though his treatment of Meherdates showed that he could be lenient upon occasion.
If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St.
But he was accommodating in his credit and lenient to debtors in default.

There was no thought of protesting the order, however, for they appreciated the fact that the commandant had been especially lenient in leaving the prisoner so long in their care.
However, it is worth while warning you not to be lenient in self-exaction.
Yet I fear you have been too lenient for my own peace of mind.
Except in this single particular, the Roman criminal code, was very lenient and sparing of human life.
There is no culprit toward whom a jury of men are less lenient than one who has manifested any light sense of his domestic duties.
That modest and lenient fellow-feeling which gave such charm to his companionship breathes in his gravest writing, and prevents us from finding any page of it cold or hard or dry.
Palliser became a little more lenient to his wife and slightly less oppressive in his caution.
Whether this judgment is more lenient or rigorous, more mortifying or honorable, than that which you may expect at the hands of the public, I will not decide.
Everything so clean, so comfortably well-arranged and the people so lenient in moral matters, that life seemed very easy.
The adventurous men who could deal thus with miracles would not be supposed to be more lenient to the prophecies of the Scriptures.
If I were guilty, this treatment would be only too lenient.
Had they been able to pursue this branch of study in the more leisurely and lenient way of the colleges, both young men might have stood well.
It is instructive to compare the lenient and common sense attitude of these trained Roman aristocrats with that of the turbulent local mobs who dealt with St.
That an empire was lost, was nothing compared with the loss of the brother who had always been so lenient to her failings, so responsive to her love.
I shall be told that all this is lenient as against rebellious adversaries.
France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics.
That public had been wonderfully indulgent toward his shortcomings, lenient with his errors, and tremendously inspiring to his best endeavor.
A cynical critic cannot expect his victims to be profoundly attached to him, or ready to be lenient to his failings.

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